Cycling shoes, im clueless

For mtb pedals you need shoes with two bolt fittings in the sole. The decathlon ones will be fine, or Evans have the northwavd scorpius on sale which are a good pair of shoes.

Best advice is to try them on in store as buying blind online is difficult as cycling shoe sizes often bear little resemblance to real shoe sizes, shimano being particularly bad for this.
 
Yes, northwave scorpius is a great shout, pretty much half price, well made. I'm a size 7 (41) and these are a 41 too and they fit perfect.

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DHB (Wiggle) do their own range of shoes if budget is a concern - M1.0 (MTB for SPD cleats) and R1.0 (Road for SPD-SL cleats). The beauty with Wiggle/DHB is their free returns, you could quite happily try different sizes on and providing you don't mark/wear them outside/fit cleats/otherwise damage them you can return them for free and for a full refund.

It's also well worth looking at shoe inserts, I have problems with my foot arches which I was totally unaware of until I experienced numb toes on my right foot. My left arch collapsing was putting pressure on the outside of my right foot, it was also causing me to rock on the saddle more causing additional saddle soreness & pains after a few hours of riding. With a LBS fit they quickly highlighted the problem, which shoe inserts I needed (along with a toe shim) and the problem has pretty much gone!

I only mention it as I was wearing cheap shoes and initially thought they were the problem.
 
randomshenans said:
Ah I get some numb toes Roady and I assumed it was cold :p but I also have a history of crap arches in my foot. Might be to blame. What do you suggest trying?
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I visited my LBS for a fit, they use the Specialized Body Geometry fir (BG). Only took an hour as they didn't do a 'full fit' & didn't charge me for it! :D

My overall fit on the bike was good (I had refined it several times myself since the original basic fit when I bought the bike back in December), although my saddle was a little low (KOPS ok before), once that was raised 20mm my reach was too stretched so they also fitted a shorter stem.

Looking at the video of me riding you could see some lateral movement in my right knee and a slight rocking of my hips - initially I would've seen movement inwards with my left knee with the left arch collapsing, but as I've got stronger my body had compensated for it and corrected it pushing the movement to my right and the pressure to the outside of my right foot. Sat on a pad to measure my hip bones to check saddle (ok), then placed my feet on a coloured pad showing pressure and the guy could see I had quite raised arches. Placed a shim to aid toe stability into my left shoe and then tried some Green inserts, they were a little too much but were enough to show correction of the lateral knee movement immediately. My LBS were out of stock of the Blues (so they reserved some for me on the next delivery). I picked up another pair (for my winter shoes) from Tredz.

As you know about arches I'd try some out, I couldn't find them cheaper than £20 without using some other brand and not knowing any kind of measurement to work with.
 
If you're getting dodgy toes it's definitely worth getting it looked at properly. If you leave it too long you could easily do more serious damage. My friend ignored his (very minor-seeming) issues for ages and ended up knackering part of his knee badly enough that he had to take months almost entirely off the bike whilst he performed corrective exercises and stretches.
 
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